It was in the
comment section afterwards, and it said something to the effect of “if you read
this article, if you even hovered to long over the headline, you’re now in
their database.” I’d say those are
probably true statements. All I can say
is freedom ain’t free, these days that’s the price of patriotism.
“You hold ‘em by the nose and kick ‘em in
the ass…” You’re fast, aggressive, arrive with
overwhelming firepower and don’t stay any longer than it takes to dispose of
the target you were sent to neutralize.
The kind of warfare Patton learned from his mentor enemy Rommel. The way wars used to be fought, WW2 evolved
into version 6.4 or so by now (I don’t play Call of Duty so I’m just
guessing at the version number), the styles of warfare where physical geography
is the prime factor in separating the combatants out into those called US and
they known as THEM. The kind of warfare
Patton espoused as a necessary evolutionary function within the global
community of mankind. The kind of
warfare every nation’s military was designed for, what the vast majority of
mankind thinks of when you say “war.”
The key factoid
(to understanding today) is in the paragraph above. Did you notice it go by? I’ll be back to the thought here in a bit,
but in the meanwhile a humble example of what I’m talking about from me world
of real life.
A couple of years
ago I could go to pretty much any parts store and buy one off the rack for less
than ten dollars, they were stocked along with the fuses. You know, fuses, the things that protect an
electrical circuit from melting down and starting a fire if they short
out. But a gross excess of amperage
isn’t the only danger an electric circuit must defend against, particularly if
it’s a DC circuit involving solid state devices, computers and the like. If you’re a device designed to use DC
electricity (as in your automobile, or the working guts of the computer you’re
using to read this) one of your larger enemies is the presence of AC
electricity (as in your house) running loose in your wires. The two forms of electricity just flat do not
mix well, failure isn’t an if, it’s a when.
Those who know
their technology already know I’m talking about a diode, another of those
ubiquitous little devices that keep the modern world going. A diode is a device that only allows
electrons to flow in one direction, the symbol used on the diagrams to mean
“diode here” includes an arrow pointing in the direction of flow. You use diodes to convert AC electricity into
DC, you use a diode when you want to make double damn sure that AC electricity
isn’t going to damage your DC circuit.
In the latter example a diode is like a little soldier who will die
(blow to open and break the circuit) before he’ll allow any electrons to go the
other way. Rather noble little things,
in a blow the bugle and fire off a salute at sunset sort of way.
I ran into one
that did just that, died in defense of the system. Yea, I’m still working on my old pickup truck
Brutus, checking out the full system to find and fix what a bad ground cable
plus twenty years of attrition have done to the system. I’m becoming down right intimate with Ford
system IV fuel injection, a whole lot more than I ever really wanted to
be. He’s down, I don’t see any sense in
bringing him back up until I’m sure things are the way they need to be. I need the old guy reliable, you know? Anyhow, after climbing the system from the
battery headed in I’ve found and fixed a couple of things that were no doubt
major contributors to his problems, have one more major “now dammit, that CAN’T
be right” to figure out and
resolve. Quite a jigsaw puzzle, really,
I’m drawing my own diagram as I ohm out the wires confirming the circuits. Victory will be sweet, I’ll have earned it. You see, the diode that died is in the main
fusebox, its’ job was to defend the ignition system and computer from the AC
electricity a defective alternator (one of the things already found and fixed)
can set loose to run the wires like terrorists on the freeway.
So what in the
name of Noah’s pet whales does a blown diode in an old pickup truck have to do
with modern warfare? It has to do with
that key factoid I mentioned, the bit about warfare
where physical geography is the prime
factor in separating the combatants out into those called US and they known
as THEM. A rather scary, hell, VERY scary fact of the modern world is
that combat, warfare, is no longer primarily region to region but rather
corporation vs. corporation, geography really doesn’t play any major role, not
anymore. All the daughters of ceCorporation (ceFord, ceGE, ceHaliburton etc
et all ad nauseum) are involved in a very nasty civil war, and for them the
geographic regions and the forms of politically motivated conventional warfare
are just subsets of their arsenal. They
are some seriously vicious bitches, and for them this is mortal combat, a fight
to the death, they’re using anything and everything they can get their hands
on.
The fact that a couple
of years ago I could buy a direct replacement diode for Brutus off the rack
while now every parts store says “dealership item” is just a tiny example of
how desperate the fight has become, essentially how desperate the combatants
have become to make sure they’re not helping each other survive. Where that diode has blown there’s a really,
really good chance there’s a defective alternator as well, and, well, ceFord
wants to know about it and have a chance to sell you the new alternator (at
grossly inflated dealership prices) by refusing to sell you the five dollar
diode unless you bring the machine in for their shop to service. They damn sure don’t like the idea of you
buying and installing your own alternator from someone who *gasp* might, just
might be contributing to the profitability of the parent corporation of say
ceBorgWarner (memory serves BorgWarner an ally of General Motors… but not
totally sure on that point, uniforms would be a really nice thing, you’d know
who was on who’s side).
Folks, heads up, wise
up. The Bushite Bastards are back, now
fighting on several fronts. The concept
of Monopoly by Maintenance is one of
the newer weapons in the arsenal of ceCorporations’ civil war, it is being
installed at the state level of things (where politicians are cheaper to buy
and easier to hide the bribe) and it has the potential to have “Ford Territory”
or “Honda Turf” on the maps in say fifty some years.
Just one of their
campaigns, nasty as it is the lesser of their efforts. The biggy they’re building (think Nazi
Germany’s nuclear program during WW2) is the loophole the DAMNED BY ANY DECENT DEITY BUSHITES have discovered in the United
States Constitution and are proceeding to exploit with things like the Trans
Pacific Partnership and others of the same ilk, but, more on that later. If you haven’t checked out what the World
Trade Organization is up to these days on behalf of their Bushite masters DO IT
NOW or forever live with the consequences, and while you’re doing that I’m
gonna go fire up the volt-ohm meter and go back to being a modern
mechanic.
Just what fucking
eco-idiot decided to bolt wheels on a computer and sell it for a pickup
truck? I want to find this person and
make very, very sure they do not enjoy meeting me.
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